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[–] Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Lemme guess, this site still has a Xitter account

[–] xilophor@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.

vance first, then trump!

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 27 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Way too late to "fight" them this way, it's already served it's purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Yeah. It served it's purpose, he bought a mass social media outlet, let it run wild, influenced elections, spread hate and normalized even more extreme views to fuck with all the world. The damage is done. Claiming doing something good at this point when it should have been done at the early signs but everyone would call you paranoid is just non sense. Crying wolf and all that bullshit.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago

I deleted Threads five days ago.

It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …

All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…

It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.

But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.

And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 65 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You didn't do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone's feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

People who weren't ready to listen before are now.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Just remembered I still had one..
Anyway, Goodbye fuckers

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

...the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they're in the walls, that is palliative care.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 hours ago

That doesn't mean leaving now isn't better than staying.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 17 points 6 hours ago

Twitter (I will always call it that-fuck you melon head musk), is just fox news for the internet, a fascist hate app.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Used it from 2009 until around 2013. It was so much better before it was super huge.

[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 100 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Don't just "delete" Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago

Link your account to some bot posting gibberish every 10 minutes. For maximum damage.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Leave a negative review on the app stores

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 12 points 6 hours ago

If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 56 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's time to delete X? 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Agreed

l never used *Xitter anyway

*It's pronounced as Shitter

Cant delete xitter if I never had it

taps head

[–] wildflower@lemmy.world 42 points 10 hours ago (34 children)

At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn't that big a deal.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

I love seeing these comments firmly showing how out of touch some/most of Lemmy is.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I know a lot of people still on twitter who ate firmly against fascism. I don't know why they're still on there though.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

who ate firmly against fascism

Eat the rich. 😋

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

"I can fix him"

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Because, as an example, some very important services communicate solely through Xitter. Emergency alerts, fire depart, governmental bodies, etc. Do I despise that? Yes. Do I ask them to move? Yes. Are they? Hell no.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago

Not while you are showing them you are still on there.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

For a lot of marginalized people Twitter was a place to escape to and find like-minded people, I can see how it's hard to make a new place feel as homely. Most of us here left another site because we didn't agree with the leadership so it's a very biased group, "just do the same thing we did". Not everyone is in as privileged of a position though and it might be way harder for them to leave than you can imagine, especially if they're addicted to it.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 8 points 9 hours ago

Too late, Twitter served its purpose.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago

Don’t just delete the app, delete the whole account!

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